[PDF.18lh] Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

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 | #4353080 in Books |  Louisiana State University Press |  2007-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .95 x6.10 x9.19l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||From the Back Cover||"Rites of August First is an absorbing and meticulous study that documents the impact of British Caribbean emancipation in 1834 on the drive to abolish slavery in the United States." -- The Public Historian|"Kerr-Ritchie provides a sophistic

Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, "August First Day," also known as "West India Day" and "Emancipation Day," became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern Unite...

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